Past Events

July 2006

"Preparing a Global Workforce: Chinese Language and Culture in California"

DATE:	Thursday, July 13, 2006
TIME:	8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Chevron Auditorium
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	International & Area Studies--Dean's Office, Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

August 2006

"An Introduction to Peony Pavilion"

Kenneth Pai, Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara
Lindy Li Mark, Professor Emerita, CSU East Bay

DATE:	Tuesday, August 8, 2006
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Regional Integration in East Asia: Reality, Possibility and Feasibility"

Motoyoshi Sono, Professor, Economics, Rissho University

DATE:	Wednesday, August 16, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Industrial Shanghai through a Century of Visual Images: A Photograph Exhibition"

DATE:	Wednesday, August 23, 2006 to Friday, September 22, 2006
PLACE:	College of Environmental Design, second floor Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"War and Wartime in Visual Representations"

DATE:	Wednesday, August 23, 2006
TIME:	War and Wartime workshop: 2:00 PM to 4:45 PM Photo exhibit and reception: 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	The Faculty Club; Reception and photo exhibit in Wurster Hall, 2nd floor.
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"War and Wartime in Visual Representations"

DATE:	Thursday, August 24, 2006
TIME:	9:00 AM to 6:15 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"War and Wartime in Visual Representations"

DATE:	Friday, August 25, 2006
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Traditional Korean Embroidery"

DATE:	Monday, August 28, 2006 to Friday, September 29, 2006
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

September 2006

"The Role of Education in South Korea's Economic Development: Achievements and Challenges"

Jin Pyo Kim, Member, Korean National Assembly

DATE:	Tuesday, September 5, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Koret Foundation

"The Emperor's Muslim Servants: Muslim Collaborators and the Establishment of Qing Colonial Regime in Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), 1759 - 1765"

Kwangmin Kim, Ph.D. Candidate, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, September 6, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Recent Archaeological Discoveries in China"

Michael Nylan, Professor, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, September 6, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	2251 College Building, (between Boalt and Wurster Halls) Seminar Room
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Archaeological Research Facility

"An Afternoon of Music with Gayageum Virtuoso Aeri Ji"

DATE:	Wednesday, September 6, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Performance
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Riddle of Tabo: The Origin and Fate of a West Tibetan Manuscript Collection"

Paul Harrison, Visiting Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University

DATE:	Thursday, September 7, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Is China shifting its development paradigm?: Central-local relations and the impetus for change"

Maria Heimer, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Uppsala University

DATE:	Friday, September 8, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Women in the Ming Dynasty"

DATE:	Sunday, September 10, 2006
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	Hertz Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"2006 Fall Reception"

DATE:	Tuesday, September 12, 2006
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Reception

"The timeless love and dream in the Peony Pavilion"

Kenneth Pai, Professor Emeritus, UCSB

DATE:	Wednesday, September 13, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	155 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Association of Taiwanese Students

"Cal Performances presents Peony Pavilion "

DATE:	Friday, September 15, 2006 to Sunday, September 17, 2006
PLACE:	Zellerbach Auditorium
FORMAT:	Performance
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Cal Performances

"Peony Pavilion in Context: Kun Opera and Cultural Performance from Ming to Modern Times: 牡丹亭及其社會氛圍：從明至今崑曲的時代內涵與文化展示"

DATE:	Friday, September 15, 2006 to Sunday, September 17, 2006
PLACE:	Alumni House, Toll Room
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Perfmormances

"Making Theater"

DATE:	Friday, September 15, 2006
TIME:	2:30 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House, Toll room
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Cal Performances, Dept. of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies

"Reception: Traditional Korean Embroidery"

Park, Phil Soon, artist

DATE:	Friday, September 15, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Reception
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Kunqu Opera Master Class"

DATE:	Saturday, September 16, 2006
TIME:	2:30 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House, Toll Room
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Cal Performances

"Maruyama Masao and America the Incomprehensible"

Yasuhisa Shimizu, CJS Visiting Scholar, History of Japanese Political Thought, Kyushu University

DATE:	Monday, September 18, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation"

Michael Zielenziger, Visiting Scholar, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, September 19, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Women's Faculty Club Lounge, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Institute of International Studies

"The Role of Song in Jin ping mei: Implied Judgment and Narrative Integration"

Katherine Carlitz, Adjunct Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh

DATE:	Wednesday, September 20, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The 'Mathematisation' of 'Physics' in Comparative Perspective: Greece and China"

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Senior Scholar in Residence, Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge

DATE:	Wednesday, September 20, 2006
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Office for History of Science and Technology, Department of History

"Asia by Means of Performance: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Asian Performance"

DATE:	Friday, September 22, 2006 to Saturday, September 23, 2006
PLACE:	Geballe Room, Townsend Center
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"From Military Violence to Court Poetry in the Early Tang: Six Poems from the Hanlin Xueshi Ji"

Jack Chen, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Friday, September 22, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China’s Illiberal Challenge"

Naazneen Barma, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science
Ely Ratner, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science

DATE:	Thursday, September 28, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	223 Moses Hall, Institute of International Studies
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of International Studies

"Provisional Bodies: Contemporary Literatures of the Chinese Diaspora and Cultural Translation"

Serena Fusco, Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Naples

DATE:	Thursday, September 28, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Taiwan Film Festival"

DATE:	Friday, September 29, 2006 to Sunday, October 1, 2006
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive Theater and UC Berkeley Art Museum Theater
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society Northern California, Chuan Lyu Foundation, TECO-SF

"East Asia in Transition: Comprehensive Security in the Pacific Rim"

DATE:	Friday, September 29, 2006
TIME:	8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Women's Struggle for Gender Equality in Korea"

Mijeong Lee, Department of Sociology, Stanford University

DATE:	Friday, September 29, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Milarepa"

DATE:	Saturday, September 30, 2006
TIME:	6:30 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture

October 2006

"Why Ask 'Where' in Infectious Disease Epidemiology?: An Application of GIS in Public Health"

Dr. Edmund Seto, Lecturer, School of Public Health

DATE:	Monday, October 2, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	2538 Channing Way, Survey Research Center Conference Room
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Survey Research Center (SRC), Geographic Information Science Center (GISC), IGERT Program in Politics, Economics, Psychology & Public Policy (PEPPP)

"The Role of Education in South Korea's Economic Development: Achievements and Challenges"

Jin Pyo Kim, Member, Korean National Assembly

DATE:	Thursday, October 5, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Do Buddhists Believe? Not Exactly the Same Old Question"

Catherine Bell, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University

DATE:	Thursday, October 5, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"China Blue: Documentary film followed by panel discussion"

DATE:	Thursday, October 5, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
PLACE:	145 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund

"Popular Contention in China"

DATE:	Friday, October 6, 2006 Saturday, October 7, 2006
TIME:	8:30 AM to 5:00 PM 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund, Berkeley China Initiative, Department of Political Science

"Investing in Emerging Markets: China, India, Russia"

DATE:	Friday, October 6, 2006
TIME:	8:30 AM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	Haas School of Business, Anderson Auditorium
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Clausen Center for International Business & Policy

"Berkeley Moon Festival Party"

$3 with Berkeley student ID, $8 non-students

DATE:	Friday, October 6, 2006
TIME:	6:30 PM
PLACE:	155 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association (BCSSA)

"Corporate Conference: China's Financial Markets"

Cost: $95 Member, $120 Non-Member

DATE:	Wednesday, October 11, 2006
TIME:	9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
PLACE:	Four Seasons Hotel, 757 Market St., San Francisco
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Berkeley China Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies, Asia Society Northern California, California-Asia Business Council, Hong Kong Association of Northern California, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce

"Interpreting Social Change and Reform: The Genealogy of the Danwei"

Pierre Miege, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, October 11, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Responses to Destruction in Japan: a Multi-Disciplinary Symposium "

DATE:	Friday, October 13, 2006
TIME:	9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:	JSPS Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, JSPS

"The Construction of Meaning: Commentary in the Chinese Tradition"

Daniel Gardner, Professor, History, Smith College

DATE:	Friday, October 13, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The Analysis of Biz Strategy and Government Policy of "TV to Go" in the U.S. and Korea"

Gwang James Han, Howard University

DATE:	Friday, October 13, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Exhibit: Universal Mountain: The Paintings of Ahn Sahn"

DATE:	Monday, October 16, 2006 to Friday, January 12, 2007
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby & Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"中国民族管乐器演示 (An Introduction to Chinese Minority Musical Instruments): Lecture and Demonstration"

Ming Zeng (曾明), Professor, Jiangsu Provincial Drama College (教授, 江苏省戏剧学校)

DATE:	Wednesday, October 18, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Wild Cursive and Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy"

Lin Hwai-min, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Artistic director
Lampo Leong, calligraphy artist and Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia
Patricia Berger, Chair, History of Art Department, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, October 18, 2006
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	Women's Faculty Club Lounge, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Performances, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"Wild Cursive Calligraphy Workshop"

Lampo Leong, Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia

DATE:	Thursday, October 19, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Cal Performances

"Geography Lessons: Creating Shinano in the Provincial Press, 1880-1920"

Karen Wigen, History, Stanford University

DATE:	Friday, October 20, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Explorations in Minority Memory: How and why did Ming Taizu become a Muslim"

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Assistant Professor, History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University

DATE:	Friday, October 20, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Developments and Opportunities at Hong Kong Polytechnic University"

Registration required

DATE:	Sunday, October 22, 2006
TIME:	3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Tilden Room, Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
FORMAT:	Lecture, registration required
SPONSORS:	Berkeley Chinese Student and Scholar Association (BCSSA), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Center for Chinese Studies

"China's Cutting Edge: New Video from Shanghai"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Tuesday, October 24, 2006
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies

"Timor-Leste: A Candidate for State Failure?"

James Cotton, Professor of Politics, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy

DATE:	Wednesday, October 25, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"Pirated Copy"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Wednesday, October 25, 2006
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies

"Reclaiming Chinese Society: Politics of Redistribution, Recognition, and Representation"

DATE:	Friday, October 27, 2006 Saturday, October 28, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund, University of Michigan

"Japan’s Kamioka Mine: Engineering Human Pain in the Hybrid Environments of the Jinzū River Basin"

Brett Walker, Japan, Environmental and Medical History, Montana State Unviersity

DATE:	Friday, October 27, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Making of Multiethnic Society in South Korea: The influx of foreign workers, bride importation, and population aging"

Andrew Eungi Kim, Korea University

DATE:	Friday, October 27, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Yang Ban Xi: The Eight Model Works"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Friday, October 27, 2006
TIME:	8:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies

"The World"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Saturday, October 28, 2006
TIME:	8:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies

"A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and Inquirer: Kuki Shūzō’s Version"

Michael Marra, Japanese Literture and Hermeneutics, UCLA

DATE:	Monday, October 30, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

November 2006

"An IEAS Shorenstein Seminar: East Asia Ten Years After the Crisis"

DATE:	Thursday, November 2, 2006
TIME:	Reception: 3:30 PM Panel Discussion: 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund

"An Archaeological Approach to the Lolan Kingdom in Xinjiang"

Wang Binghua, Professor, History, Renmin University

DATE:	Thursday, November 2, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	150-D Moffitt Library, (in the basement of Moffitt directly opposite of the micro-computing lab)
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Archaeological Research Facility, Art History, Buddhist Studies, History

"The Interplay of Buddhism and Law in Pre-communist Mongolia"

Vesna Wallace, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara

DATE:	Thursday, November 2, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"1895: Kyoto and the Navigation of Japanese Art History"

Alice Tseng, Japanese Art & Architecture, Boston University

DATE:	Friday, November 3, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Labor NGOs in US and China"

Katie Quan, Associate Chair, Center for Labor Research and Education

DATE:	Friday, November 3, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	Tan Oak Room, MLK Student Union
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Cal Corps Public Service Center

"The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter: Chinese Sojourners in the Spanish Phillippines and their Impact on Southern Fujian (Sixteenth--Eighteenth Centuries)"

Lucille Chia, Associate Professor, History, UC Riverside

DATE:	Friday, November 3, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism"

Steven K. Vogel, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, November 7, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund

"Educating Women Migrant Workers"

Huang Shumei, Head of the Guangdong Women's Federation

DATE:	Wednesday, November 8, 2006
TIME:	10:00 AM
PLACE:	Director’s Room, Institute of Industrial Relations, 2521 Channing
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Industrial Relations, Center for Labor Research and Education

"Urban Integration: Midsize Cities in the Lower Yangzi"

Xin Zhang, Professor, History, Indiana University at Indianapolis

DATE:	Wednesday, November 8, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Memorial ceremony for Frederic Wakeman"

DATE:	Wednesday, November 8, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Great Hall, The Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Memorial ceremony
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of History

"Comparing the Buddhisms of East and Southeast Asia: A World Historical Perspective"

John R. McRae, Visiting Scholar, The University of Tokyo

DATE:	Thursday, November 9, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Occupation of Japan: Personal Reflections Six Decades Later"

Hans Baerwald, Political Science, Emeritus Professor, UCLA

DATE:	Monday, November 13, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Imperial Vision Represented by the First Emperor's Burial"

Qingbo Duan, Archaeological Survey Team Leader, First Emperor's Burial Mound, Shaanxi Province Institute of Archaeology

DATE:	Wednesday, November 15, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Bay Area-China Connection"

DATE:	Thursday, November 16, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Berkeley China Initiative, Center for Chinese Studies, Bay Area Economic Forum, Asia Society of Northern California, California-Asia Business Council, Committee of 100

"Rice, Flowers, and Goats: The Politics of Labor and Gender in "post-IMF" South Korea"

Jungmin Seo, University of Hawaii, Manoa

DATE:	Thursday, November 16, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Tales of the Broken Family Tree: The Orphaned Imagination in Postwar Chinese-Language Cinema"

Zhen Zhang, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, New York University

DATE:	Thursday, November 16, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	142 Dwinelle Hall, (Nestrick Room)
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Film Studies Program, Townsend Working Groups

"Family and Labor in US and China"

Julia Chuang, PhD Candidate in Sociology

DATE:	Friday, November 17, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	West Madrone, MLK Student Union
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Cal Corps Public Service Center

"The 14th Annual Bakai: バークレー大学研究大会"

DATE:	Friday, November 17, 2006
TIME:	Starting with Buffet Luncheon: 1:15 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Records of Self-Salvation: Memoirs of Kagero Nkki and Hanjungrok: Memoirs of Kagero Nkki（蜻蛉日記）and Hanjungrok （閑中録）"

Youn-eun Huh, CJS Visiting Scholar, Japanese Language and Literature, Daegu University

DATE:	Monday, November 20, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6F
FORMAT:	Visiting Scholar Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Misalignments: Video and Performance Art Documenta from the PRC"

Maranatha Ivanova, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Monday, November 20, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Video Presentation
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Between Public and Private in the Age of Big Construction: Spaces of Appearance in Han Bing’s Art"

Maranatha Ivanova, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Han Bing (韩冰), Performance Artist

DATE:	Tuesday, November 21, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Korean Painting: Aesthetics and Technique"

Min Paek, Founder and Executive Director of the Korean American Women Artists and Writers Association (KAWAWA), San Francisco

DATE:	Tuesday, November 28, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Program, followed by reception
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Beijing: Construction and Transformation (北京: 营建与改造)"

Zhu Yong (祝勇), Writer, CCS Artist-in-Residence (作家, 驻校艺术家)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 29, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Classical Chinese Combinatorics: Derivation of the Book of Changes Hexagram Sequence"

Richard Cook, STEDT Project Manager, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics

DATE:	Thursday, November 30, 2006
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	STEDT Project, 2505 Channing Way, (East of Telegraph)
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, STEDT Project, Dept. of Linguistics

December 2006

"China's Water Warriors: Political Pluralization and Hydropower Policy in China"

Andrew Mertha, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Washington University

DATE:	Friday, December 1, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Sources & Methods: Fieldwork in China"

Andrew Mertha, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Washington University
Please RSVP to ccs@berkeley.edu

DATE:	Saturday, December 2, 2006
TIME:	10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Out of Taiwan hypothesis for Austronesian origins: New archaeological research in Taiwan and the northern Philippines"

Peter Bellwood, Professor, Australian National University

DATE:	Tuesday, December 5, 2006
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	2251 College Building, (between Boalt and Wurster Halls) Archaeological Research Facility Seminar Room
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Archaeological Research Facility

"The Development Paths of Asian Manufacturers in the Era of Global Production: A Comparative Study of the Motorcycle Industry in China, Taiwan, and India"

Moriki Ohara, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan

DATE:	Wednesday, December 6, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Heart of the Buddha's Message?: The Middle Way and Other Disputed Concepts in Early Buddhism"

Oliver Freiberger, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

DATE:	Thursday, December 7, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"China Labor working group fall meeting"

Eli Friedman, Grad Student, Sociology
Jia Ching Chen, Grad Student, City & Regional Planning
Shannon May, Grad Student, Anthropology

DATE:	Friday, December 8, 2006
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IIR Director's Room, 2521 Channing Way
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Labor Research and Education

"Creation and Re-Creation: A Conversation with Ch'oe Yun and Bruce Fulton"

Bruce Fulton, Professor
Ch'oe Yun, Professor and Author

DATE:	Friday, December 8, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

January 2007

"Exhibit: Shanghai Alleyways 上海弄堂: Photographs by Jianhua Gong 龚建华摄影展"

DATE:	Thursday, January 18, 2007 to Friday, May 18, 2007
TIME:	weekdays: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Exhibit Series - Arts of East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Opening Reception: Shanghai Alleyways 上海弄堂: Photographs by Jianhua Gong 龚建华摄影展"

Jianhua Gong, Photographer
Christian Henriot, Editor, Virtual Shanghai

DATE:	Thursday, January 18, 2007
TIME:	6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Reception
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Commuting Time"

Thomas Lamarre, Japanese Literature, McGill University

DATE:	Friday, January 19, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"My Music--Three Examples"

Lee Geon-Yong, Professor, Korean National University of the Arts

DATE:	Tuesday, January 23, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Yomiuri Shimbun, From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible?"

Takahiko Tennichi, Editorial writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun

DATE:	Wednesday, January 24, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund, Graduate School of Journalism

"Reading Chinese Buddhist Monastic Hagiographies: A New Approach"

Jinhua Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

DATE:	Thursday, January 25, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Craft specialization in early states in China: A view from the Erlitou hinterland"

Li Liu, Professor, Archaeology, LaTrobe University

DATE:	Friday, January 26, 2007
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	2251 College Building, (between Boalt and Wurster Halls)
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Archaeological Research Facility

"Peasant Perspectives on Deforestation in Southwest China: Social Discontent and Environmental Mismanagement"

Justin Zackey, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies

DATE:	Friday, January 26, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

February 2007

"The Discovery of Buddhism on the Silk Road"

Dr. Susan Whitfield, Director, International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London

DATE:	Thursday, February 1, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, Berkeley China Initiative, Caucasus and Central Asia Program, East Asian Library

"The US-Japan Special Relationship and East Asia: How to Build up a Stable Triangle?"

Fumio Matsuo, Journalist/Author, Former Washington Bureau Chief, Kyodo News

DATE:	Monday, February 5, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	CJS Shorenstein Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"China’s Engagement with Latin America: Economic and Political Implications"

Adrian Hearn, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies,University of Technology Sydney

DATE:	Wednesday, February 7, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, The Center for Latin American Studies

"Chinese Lessons--Five Classmates and the Story of the New China: A Conversation with Orville Schell"

John Pomfret, Los Angeles bureau chief of The Washington Post

DATE:	Thursday, February 8, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Hall Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Institute of International Studies

"The Manchus, the Ming, and Modern China"

Mark Elliott, Professor, History, Harvard University

DATE:	Thursday, February 8, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History

"Does Humor Belong in Buddhism?"

DATE:	Friday, February 9, 2007 to Saturday, February 10, 2007
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"Babel in Beijing: Dialect Accents and Urban Identity in Late-Imperial Chinese Fiction"

Paize Keulemans, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures,Yale University

DATE:	Friday, February 9, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Reflections on Asia - Growth and Sustainability: The Berkeley MBA Asia Business Conference"

DATE:	Saturday, February 10, 2007
TIME:	8:00 AM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	Haas School of Business
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Haas Alumni Network, UC Berkeley MBA Association, Booz Allen Hamilton, Choya, Cultural Division-Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung

"Nuclear North Korea and the Future of Northeast Asian Security: An Asia Society Northern California Conference"

DATE:	Tuesday, February 13, 2007
TIME:	8:30 AM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Omni Hotel, 500 California St. (at Montgomery)
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society Northern California, Asia Foundation, Business Executives for National Security, Japan Society of Northern California, National Committee on North Korea, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, World Affairs Council of Northern California

"Of Hands and Feet: The Female Body in Chinese History"

Dorothy Ko, Professor, History, Barnard College & Columbia University

DATE:	Thursday, February 15, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History

"Relations between Africa and China in a Globalized World"

Steven Nakana, Graduate Student, Sociology, U.C. Berkeley
Admission free for I-House members, residents and alumni
$5 for the general public

DATE:	Thursday, February 15, 2007
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	Home Room, International House
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, International House, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies

"Limits and Potential of Media: Iinuma Yokusai(1783-1865)'s Pictorial Experiments"

Maki Fukuoka, Japanese Humanities, University of Michigan

DATE:	Friday, February 16, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The 2007 Berkeley Chinese Traditional New Year Celebration"

Tickets (Dinner included): $3 -$8

DATE:	Friday, February 16, 2007
TIME:	6:30 PM
PLACE:	155 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Reception
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association

"P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance"

Nathan Hesselink, Assistant Professor, School of Music, University of British Columbia

DATE:	Tuesday, February 20, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"The Chinese Media and the Environment: A Conversation with Orville Schell"

Hu Shuli, Editor, Caijing magazine
Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

DATE:	Tuesday, February 20, 2007
TIME:	7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Unionizing Wal-Mart in China"

Xin Tong, Director, The Research Center of China’s Workers, Peking University

DATE:	Wednesday, February 21, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	2521 Channing Way
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Labor Research and Education, Institute of Industrial Relations

"Contemplation and Education: Landscape of Research"

Father Thomas Keating OSCO, Founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and Contemplative Outreach
Venerable Tenzin LS Priyadarshi, Visiting Scholar and Buddhist Chaplain at MIT and President of the Prajnopaya Foundation
Professor Tobin Hart, Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia

DATE:	Wednesday, February 21, 2007
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	Chapel at Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute for Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union, The Impact Foundation, The Prajnopaya Foundation- MIT, Contemplative Outreach

"BCSSA Career Development Seminar: 37 Years After Berkeley--Business and Cultural Experiences of a Chinese-American"

Ta-lin Hsu, Founder and Chairman, H&Q Asia Pacific, Member of Advisory Board, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, February 23, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 126 Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association

"Rocky Stability versus Social Volcano?: Distributive Injustice Feelings in China"

Martin K. Whyte, Professor, Sociology, Harvard

DATE:	Friday, February 23, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The China Economic Miracle: How Stable Is It?"

Howard French, UC Regents' Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism

DATE:	Monday, February 26, 2007
TIME:	7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	Sibley Auditorium
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Graduate School of Journalism

"Same Choice, Different Rewards: Shanghai’s Financial Changes from 1927—1937"

Xue Nianwen, Associate Professor, Business Ethics, Tongji University

DATE:	Wednesday, February 28, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Chinese History from the Viewpoint of Medicine"

Nathan Sivin, Professor Emeritus, Chinese Culture and History of Science, University of Pennsylvania

DATE:	Wednesday, February 28, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Office for History of Science & Technology, Department of History

March 2007

"The Nexus of Power: War, Market and the State Formation in Later Imperial China, 1000-1450"

Guanglin Liu, Assistant Professor, History, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

DATE:	Thursday, March 1, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History

"Buddhist Material Culture and the Construction of Pan-Asianism in Pre-War Japan"

Richard M. Jaffe, Japanese Religion, Duke University

DATE:	Friday, March 2, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform"

Stephan Haggard, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, UC San Diego

DATE:	Friday, March 2, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Legal Uncertainty in Foreign Investment in China: Causes and Management"

Stanley Lubman, Lecturer, Boalt School of Law

DATE:	Monday, March 5, 2007
TIME:	12:30 PM
PLACE:	2240 Piedmont Avenue
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for the Study of Law and Society

"The Social History of the Book in China: Sibao and Late Imperial Book Culture"

Cynthia Brokaw, Professor, History, Ohio State University

DATE:	Monday, March 5, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History

"Beyond the Ivory Tower: Alternative Careers for Asia Specialists"

DATE:	Wednesday, March 7, 2007
TIME:	11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	East Asia Career Forum
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Group in Asian Studies, Career Center

"The Repeal of the Agricultural Tax and Its Impact on Rural Governance in China"

Chen An, Associate Professor, Political Science, National University of Singapore

DATE:	Wednesday, March 7, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Non-Traditional Security Challenges in Asia"

DATE:	Thursday, March 8, 2007
TIME:	8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of International Studies, Asia Society of Northern California

"Much Ado About the Appearance and Perception of Water: Attempts Made by the Four Major Schools of Tibetan Buddhism to Resolve Ontological and Epistemological Problems"

Dorji Wangchuk, University of Hamburg

DATE:	Thursday, March 8, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt"

Ching Kwan Lee, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan

DATE:	Thursday, March 8, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	402 Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History

"Does a Buddha Possess Gnosis (jñ na: ye shes)?: A Dispute Among Madhyamaka Exponents in India and Tibet"

Orna Almogi, University of Hamburg

DATE:	Thursday, March 8, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Girl-time and Commodity Aesthetics:: The Feminization of Japanese Mass Culture"

Tomiko Yoda, Japanese Literature, Duke University

DATE:	Friday, March 9, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Autumn Harvest: Peasants and Markets in the Post-Corporatist Rural China"

Xueguang Zhou, Professor, Sociology, Stanford University

DATE:	Friday, March 9, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Voice in Japanese Literature: Symposium in Honor of Susan Matisoff"

DATE:	Saturday, March 10, 2007
TIME:	8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The Role of The Supreme People's Procuratorate in Promoting Respect for Human Rights and Rule of Law in China"

Dan Wei, Professor, Institute for Procuratorial Theory, Supreme People’s Procuratorate

DATE:	Monday, March 12, 2007
TIME:	12:30 PM
PLACE:	Room 110, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Boalt School of Law, Berkeley China Initiative

"Recent Developments in Chinese Labor Law and the Response of Foreign Investors"

Liu Cheng, Professor, Law and Politics, Shanghai Normal University

DATE:	Monday, March 12, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 110, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Center for Labor Research and Education, Institute of Industrial Relations, Boalt School of Law

"Kobayashi Hideo:
French Symbolism, Shishōsetsu-ron, and After
"

Atsuo Morimoto, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University

DATE:	Tuesday, March 13, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	4104 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Visiting Scholar Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques and Shanghai Neo-Senstionism"

Hsiao-yen Peng, Researcher, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica

DATE:	Wednesday, March 14, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Understanding Tibetan Monastic Music in the 21st Century"

DATE:	Wednesday, March 14, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Performances

"High Tech Intellectual Property Issues in China"

DATE:	Thursday, March 15, 2007
TIME:	12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 100, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Association of Taiwanese, erkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association (BCSSA), Student Organization for Advanced Legal Studies (SOALS)

"Outcasts, Treaty Ports and the Meanings of "Liberation": Revisiting Meiji Japan's Emancipatory Moment"

Daniel Botsman, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

DATE:	Friday, March 16, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Summer Palace (颐和园)"

DATE:	Saturday, March 17, 2007
TIME:	8:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Ghosts"

DATE:	Sunday, March 18, 2007
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"On Contemporary Art"

Hou Hanru, Curator, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)

DATE:	Monday, March 19, 2007
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	160 Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Art Practice

"Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the U.S."

Roland Kelts, Lecturer, University of Tokyo, and Editor, "A Public Space" Literary Journal

DATE:	Tuesday, March 20, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Karma, Curse, or Divine Illusion: The Destruction of the Buddha's Clan and the Slaughter of the Yâdavas"

Phyllis Granoff, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University, and Visiting Scholar, Center for Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, March 22, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Do Over (一年之初)"

DATE:	Friday, March 23, 2007
TIME:	8:45 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

April 2007

"Women, Iron, and Useful Things in Republican Martial Arts Fiction"

Petrus Liu, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University

DATE:	Thursday, April 5, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Langugaes & Cultures

"Grotesque"

Natsuo Kirino, author of "Grotesque" and "Out"

DATE:	Friday, April 6, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco, The Japan Foundation (New York), The Japan Society of Northern California

"China's Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools"

Phillip C. Saunders, Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 11, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China and India: How Japan Approaches Asia's Two Giants"

Ambassador Sakutaro Tanino, Former Japanese Ambassador to China and India

DATE:	Wednesday, April 11, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Asia Society of Northern California, Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco, Japan Society of Northern California

"Discursive Frames in Early Japanese Photography"

Allen Hockley, Art History, Dartmouth College

DATE:	Thursday, April 12, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, History of Art

"Think Global, Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan"

David Leheny, Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

DATE:	Friday, April 13, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"To Count Grains of Sand on the Ocean Floor: The Availability and Perceptions of Books in Song Dynasty China"

Ronald Egan, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCSB

DATE:	Friday, April 13, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"On the Beat (民警故事)"

DATE:	Saturday, April 14, 2007
TIME:	6:30 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Chung Kuo China (Chung Kuo Cina)"

DATE:	Sunday, April 15, 2007
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Sustainable Development in Asia: Coal, Oil, and Renewable Energy in China"

Edgard Habib, Chief Economist for Chevron
Jiang Lin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Doug Ogden, The Energy Foundation

DATE:	Monday, April 16, 2007
TIME:	Registration: 5:30 PM Program followed by reception: 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Asia Society of Northern California, 500 Washington St., 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society of Northern California, China Circle, East-West Center Association of Northern California, USF Center for the Pacific Rim

"Taiwan's Claim to Statehood Re-Examined"

Phil C. W. Chan, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa

DATE:	Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Diasporic Visions: Screening of House of Spirit & special presentation of Nüshu–The Secret Language of Women’s Writing"

Weimin Zhang, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 18, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Cultural Studies Townsend Working Group, Asian Pacific American Studies Townsend Working Group

"Integrating Demographic Data and Spatial Data for China Studies"

Shuming Bao, Senior Research Coordinator for China Initiatives, China Data Center, University of Michigan

DATE:	Thursday, April 19, 2007
TIME:	10:00 AM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Library, Center for Chinese Studies Library

"Changing Job and Housing Distributions under Marketization in Chinese Cities: A Study of Guangzhou"

Si-Ming Li, Professor, Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University

DATE:	Thursday, April 19, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	Survey Research Center, 2538 Channing Way (corner of Bowditch and Channing Way)
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Survey Research Center

"The Wonder-working Monk Reveals Himself to be the Twelve-headed Avalokiteshvara: Miracle or Esoteric Ritual?"

Koichi Shinohara, Yale University

DATE:	Thursday, April 19, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Numata Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Jeong Seon Revisited: His life and his art: Kumja Paik Kim"

Kumja Paik Kim, First Korean Curator, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

DATE:	Friday, April 20, 2007
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"On Chinese Culture (中华文化)"

Zhongtian Yi (易中天), Professor, Xiamen University (厦门大学人文学院教授)
Free. Registration required.
Lecture conducted in Chinese

DATE:	Monday, April 23, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	145 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Chinese Students and Scholars Association 伯克莱加大中国学生学者联谊会, 中国海外交流协会, 南海艺术中心

"Two Revivals of Buddhist Education in East Tibet"

Khenpo Phuntsok Namgyal, Abbot, Dzongsar Khamje Institute, Derge, Eastern Tibet
Lodre Phuntso, Principal Administrator, Dzongsar Khamje Institute, Derge, Eastern Tibet
Lama Sonam Phuntsho, Translator

DATE:	Tuesday, April 24, 2007
TIME:	11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
PLACE:	Ida and Robert Sproul Rooms, International House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Khyentse Foundation

"The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient"

Sheridan Prasso, Contributing Editor, FORTUNE magazine

DATE:	Tuesday, April 24, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Bloomberg Business Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism, Japan Society of Northern California

"Exploring Esoteric Rituals in Early East Asian Buddhism"

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2007 to Friday, April 27, 2007
PLACE:	TBA
FORMAT:	Faculty Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Modernity and Coloniality in the post-WWII World System: Germany, Japan, Korea, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan"

Ramon Grosfoguel, U.C., Berkeley
Thomas E. Reifer, Unviersity of San Diego
Satoshi Ikeda, University of Alberta
Sungho Kang, Sunchon National University
Christian F. Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson Center

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2007
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:15 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Confronting Modernity: Maruyama Masao, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor"

Robert Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Maruyama Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Inserting the Traditional into Chinese Modernities"

Lihui Yang, Institute of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology, Beijing Normal University
Deming An, Professor, Division of Folk Literature, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Folklore Program

"Esoteric Buddhism during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)"

Charles D. Orzech, Professor, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

DATE:	Thursday, April 26, 2007
TIME:	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies

"Returning to the Shore: A Scholarly Symposium in Honor of James Cahill's 81st Year"

DATE:	Friday, April 27, 2007 to Saturday, April 28, 2007
PLACE:	Click for location
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Art History Department, Williams College Asian Studies Department, Ohio State University Institute for Chinese Studies, Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center

"How Multiple are "Multiple Modernities"?"

Robert Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, April 27, 2007
TIME:	Reservation required: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	O'Neill Room, the Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Maruyama Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Residues of the Cold War: Cross Straits and Korean Peninsula"

DATE:	Friday, April 27, 2007
TIME:	1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	The University Room, The Hotel Durant, 2600 Durant Way, Berkeley (@ Bowditch Street)
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of International Studies, Asia Society

"Places and Powers: Landscape, Spirits, and Identity in China"

Robert Weller, Professor, Anthropology, Boston University

DATE:	Friday, April 27, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Feeling a Shared History through Song: 'A Flower in the Rainy Night' as a Key Cultural Symbol in Taiwan"

Nancy Guy, Associate Professor, Music, UC San Diego

DATE:	Friday, April 27, 2007
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	128 Morrison Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Music

May 2007

"Goodbye, Dragon Inn (不散)"

DATE:	Wednesday, May 2, 2007
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution"

DATE:	Wednesday, May 2, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Multicultural Center, Heller Lounge, Martin Luther King Student Union
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Multicultural Student Development, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Pathfinder Books, Eastwind Books of Berkeley

"Politics in Films"

Im Sangsoo, Movie Director

DATE:	Thursday, May 3, 2007
TIME:	4:10 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"The ROK-U.S. Alliance: Quo Vadis?"

Jong Oh Ra, John P. Wheeler Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Hollins University

DATE:	Friday, May 4, 2007
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Rereading the Shi jing Poem 'Xia Wu' (Mao 243) on the Basis of Bronze Inscriptions"

Edward Shaughnessy, Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago

DATE:	Monday, May 7, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	1229 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"China's Brave New World--And Other Tales for Global Times"

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor, History, UC Irvine

DATE:	Tuesday, May 8, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Mazar (Shrine) Visitation and Sufi Rituals Among the Uyghur in Xinjiang"

Rahile Dawuti, Professor, School of Humanities, Xinjiang University, China and ISEEES Visiting Scholar

DATE:	Wednesday, May 9, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	270 Stephens Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

"Ecological Destruction, Three Gorges Dam, and the Aesthetics of Chinese Independent Cinema"

Sheldon Lu, Professor, Comparative Literature and Film Studies, UC Davis

DATE:	Wednesday, May 9, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Cultural Studies Townsend Working Group, Asian Pacific American Studies Townsend Working Group

"Rapid Urbanization in China: Challenges and Opportunities"

Vincent H.S. Lo, Chairman & CEO, Shui On Land Limited

DATE:	Tuesday, May 15, 2007
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Office of the Chancellor, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Institute of East Asian Studies, College of Environmental Design, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

"Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization"

Nayan Chanda, Director, Globalization Project, Yale University

DATE:	Wednesday, May 16, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of International Studies, Center for Globalization and Information Technology

"Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World"

Joshua Kurlantzick, Visiting Scholar, China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

DATE:	Monday, May 21, 2007
TIME:	Registration: 5:30 PM Program: 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Asia Society of Northern California, 500 Washington Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA
FORMAT:	Lecture, registration required
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society of Northern California

"Exhibit: Painting to Live 生きるために描く: Art from Okinawa’s Nishimui Artist Society 沖縄の西森美術会の美術と美術品, 1948-1950"

DATE:	Tuesday, May 29, 2007 to Friday, September 7, 2007
TIME:	Monday-Friday: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Exhibit Series - Arts of East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society of Nothern California, Northern California Okinawan Kenjin Kai

June 2007

"Opening Reception: Painting to Live 生きるために描く: Art from Okinawa's Nishimui Artist Society 沖縄の西森美術会の美術と美術品, 1948-1950"

Chosho Ashitomi, Professor, University of the Ryukyus

DATE:	Thursday, June 14, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Reception
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society of Northern California, Northern California Okinawan Kenjin Kai